Re:I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet
by doublerabbit on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @06:19AM
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> TLS is everywhere now.
TLS is a racket. The protocol is important, it's required, sure.
The companies who issue the certificates however have been printing money ever since SSL came to exist. Each certificate issued is a money note.
LetsEncrypt only exists now and only because the internet is an heap of security mess. And caused by the same SSL certificate companies.
Domains are too.
It's definitely worse than it was, in some ways. In other ways it's better. TLS is everywhere now. uBlock origin exists. The bar for pwning web apps is much higher today because we learned collectively from our mistakes/our fun times defacing PHP-Nuke sites.
But I miss pirating warez on IRC and scoring game rips from FTP topsites, and LAN parties. Facebook and Twitter were really fun in the early years, but these days Big Social really sucks and "growth focus" in tech is exhausting.